Browsing Research Output by Subject "Meaning"
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Authentic happiness of managers, and individual and organisational outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The aim of this study was to investigate managers' orientations to happiness and the relationship thereof to individual and organisational outcomes. A cross-sectional survey design was used with managers in the agricultural ... -
Callings, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement among teachers in Zambia
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2013)Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationships among a calling orientation, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement of teachers in Zambia. A quantitative approach was followed and a ... -
Cognition and context in translation analysis: Contextual frames of reference in Bible translation
(Scriptura, 2014)This article describes the concept of contextual frames of reference (CFR) and explains its importance to the analysis of Bible translations. The article starts by explaining the idea of cognition, which is fundamental to ... -
Die Westerse mens en betekenisverlies
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2013)Several authoritative studies have indicated that Western people are currently experiencing a loss of meaning. This article states that this collective sense of loss of meaning is partly due to the fragmentation of Western ... -
Exploring a group of South African psychologists’ well-being: competencies and contests
(Sage, 2018)The aim of this study was to establish the levels of well-being of South African psychologists by implementing a mixed method research design. Positive psychology was used as framework as psychosocial well-being is a core ... -
Important goals, meanings, and relationships in flourishing and languishing states: towards patterns of well-being
(Springer, 2019)Qualitative studies of lay people’s perspectives on facets of well-being are scarce, and it is not known how the perspectives of people with high and low levels of well-being dovetail or differ. This research explored the ... -
Meaning as Perceived and Experienced by an African Student Group
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This qualitative study explored what a Batswana group of African students (N = 73) find most meaningful in their life and why those sources of meaning are important to them. Findings showed that, in line with previous ... -
The mind’s eye: a photographic method for understanding meaning in people’s lives.
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Although research relying on self-report inventories has built an increased appreciation of the importance of meaning in life, such research has strayed somewhat from the original promise of meaning in life research, which ... -
Motivations for relationships as sources of meaning: Ghanaian and South African experiences
(Frontiers Media, 2020)Afrocentric paradigms reflect assumptions of the overarching importance of interconnectedness and social bonds in meaningful experiences. It is, however, not known if types of relatedness vary in importance as meaning ... -
Representations of hope, goals, and meaning from lay person’s perspectives in two African contexts
(Sage, 2018)In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are and how we can understand this in various contexts. We aimed to explore the possible ...